\"Aku menikah! Apa kau gila? Dengan siapa akua akan menikah?\" Arriman bergumam merana. Tetapi tentu saja dia tahu. Semua tahu. Hanya ada satu jenis perempuan yang bisa dinikahi penyihir, yaitu penyihir perempuan. Arriman si Angker, Penyihir Utara, perlu istri. Tetapi penyihir perempuan yang mana yang akan dipilih Arriman? Bermacam-macam penyihir perempuan---dari yang keriput berkumis, gemuk…
Indonesian poetry, like the country and also the language, is basically a product of this century. Only in the twentieth century have the people of this vast archipelago begun to achieve a unified cultural identity and national spirit; only since 1928 has the possibility, and by now the reality, of a common language been realized; and only since World War II have Indonesians achieved nationhood…
Many useful insights into the publishing process. . . . This book does provide an aspiring author with an excellent basic overview of the publishing system and how it works to serve both authors and publishers. It speaks to the ′business of publishing′ by offering concrete examples. . . . The chapter on ′writing a book′ is full of useful guidelines on what constitutes a publishable book…
When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a national bestseller and ushered in a new era of gay fiction. Bold and inventive in his account of the urban underworld of male prostitution, Rechy is equally unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "Youngman" and his restless search for self-knowledge. As the narrator careens from El Paso to Ti…
Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman, a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain. One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kin…
Sebagai buku Pram pertama saya, Gulat Di Jakarta berhasil membuka mata dan hati tentang cara memaknai hidup dengan sederhana. Berulang kali Pram menegaskan kejujuran sebagai nilai yang menjadi landasan manusia menjalani kehidupan. Bukan hanya sekadar untuk hidup, melainkan untuk mencapai ketenangan jiwa dan raga itu sendiri. Pram membawakan buku ini dengan narasi yang ringan ditambah latar yang…
"In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there he encounters violence on a scale he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight …